HDMS Niels Juel (F363)

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HDMS Niels Juel entering Harstad on 22 June 2018
History
Denmark
NameNiels Juel
NamesakeNiels Juel
BuilderOdense Steel Shipyard, Odense
Laid down22 December 2009
Launched21 December 2010
Commissioned7 November 2011
HomeportKorsør
Identification
Motto
  • Nec Temere, Nec Timide
  • (Neither fearfully nor timidly)
StatusActive
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General characteristics
NotesThe three ship class have shared characteristics.

HDMS Niels Juel (F363) is an Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate in the Royal Danish Navy. The ship is named after Niels Juel, a 17th-century Danish admiral.

Design[edit]

The design is shared across the three ship class.

Construction and service history[edit]

The frigate was laid down on 22 December 2009 and launched on 21 December 2010 by Odense Steel Shipyard, at Odense. The vessel was commissioned on 7 November 2011.

From 7 May to 13 May 2022, Niels Juel took part in Exercise Mjolner 2022 held in the Arctic region. The vessel conducted its first launches of the SM-2 missiles.[1]

From March 2023 she was deployed for three months to a NATO naval force at very high alert joining task group 441.01.[2]

On 4 April 2024, shipping lanes and airspace in part of the Great Belt strait in Denmark were closed for hours after a missile launcher aboard the ship malfunctioned during a naval exercise.[3]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Norwegian-Led Mjølner 2022 Multinational Exercise Concludes In Arctic". Naval News. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  2. ^ The frigate Niels Juel joins Task Group 441.01
  3. ^ "Denmark shuts shipping strait over missile failure". BBC. 4 April 2024.